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Saturday, February 28, 2015

Join us for the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete

Great Canon of St. Andrew of CreteThurs. March 19Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Parma, Ohio5:00 p.m.: Simple Meal6:00 p.m.-9:30 p.m.: Great CanonFacebook EventVideo

Join us in a deeply-moving, once-a-year Lenten experience on Thursday, March 19, at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, 1900 Carlton Rd., Parma, Ohio. The Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete takes us on a journey through the entire Bible, placing us in the shoes of all the penitents of the Old and New Testaments and teaching us from their examples. The hundreds of prostrations unite our body and soul as we repent of our sins and experience God's mercy. (New this year: we will follow the tradition of reading of the life of St. Mary of Egypt.) Simple Lenten food will be available 5:00-6:00 p.m. and the Canon will begin at 6:00 p.m. All are invited to come for all or part of the Canon, whether or not you are physically able to participate in the prostrations. The Canon will last approximately 3.5 hours. Please RSVP by Monday, March 16, to 440-834-0290 or christthebridegroom@gmail.com so we know how much food and how many booklets to prepare.

O Women, * be the heralds of good news and tell what you saw; * tell of the vision and say to Sion: * "Accept the good news of joy from us, * the news that Christ has risen." *Exult and celebrate * and rejoice, O Jerusalem, * seeing Christ the King coming from the tomb * like a bridegroom."

"The monastery is the prophetic place where creation becomes praise of God and the precept of concretely lived charity becomes the ideal of human coexistence; it is where the human being seeks God without limitation or impediment, becoming a reference point for all people, bearing them in his heart and helping them to seek God."Pope John Paul II, Orientale Lumen (Light of the East)